Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDo you know that water with microplastics doesn’t cause even more microplastics? Seems reasonable to me - the existing microplastic should be ground even finer, and also cause more microplastic to be ground off.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Interesting thought, we’ll have to include it in our study. I posit that the microparticles from hand washing will be larger anyway, because method, and will include plastic from the scrubber as well as the containers.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s a good chance! Really depends on the impact of temperature, though since we’re still waaaaay below the melting point of plastic, intuitively I’d agree with you.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
So where do we get our funding? I’m thinking about a billion, if we call it The Big Beautiful Golden Study, sponsored by plastic and dishwasher manufacturers.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No no no, you have to think about it differently. Neither of those industries will want to sponsor something like this. Instead we have to go with their natural enemies - and was is the opposite of plastic (i.e. what is non-plastic)? Obviously concrete!